Introducing the creative and prodigious Melbourne-based artist, James Spencer Harrison, who has previously published a number of well-received albums, singles, and EPs under the name JMS Harrison. At a more recent time in his musical career, James was moving toward a thicker and richer full-band sound on the most recent of these, 2017’s Traced Out LP, which sparked the idea for a name change and led to the creation of his latest project, titled Fleeting Persuasion.
2019 saw the release of Forever Caught, an album by Fleeting Persuasion. Harrison captured a collection of songs that had echoes of The Cure, intricately knit post-rock, and Australian acts like Bluebottle Kiss filtered through his own brand of heart-on-sleeve melancholy at Crosstown Studios in Preston, VIC with Josh Whitehead, who had recorded, mixed, and mastered the three previous JMS Harrison releases. It was undoubtedly indie rock, but the kind that thrives in the background and constantly forges fresh vistas and intriguing relationships.
Jump forward to the middle of 2021, and Harrison has started writing a fresh batch of songs after being unable to jam with a drummer and complete a half-finished new album owing to COVID constraints.
“Knowing what the beat will be is such a crucial thing for me early in the writing phase, so using a dodgy recording app I started playing around with beats and keys for around a dozen new songs,” Harrison clarifies. “I rang Josh at Crosstown Studios and sent him the demos and he said I was crazy for starting a new project,” he laughs. “But he also said he had some experience in synths and beats so together we decided to work on one song at a time; I chose to work on this song, ‘Eternal’. We built the song in stages together as a collaboration, referencing bands like The Midnight and Chromatics along the way.”
Following the release of “Eternal”, Fleeting Persuasion bring us “Night Arrives,” a major and expressive electronic Waltz with lead vocals provided by Danielle Loughnan, a long-time friend and the band’s backing singer, with the backup vocals provided by Harrison. With its endearing dreamy alternative rock pop sound, “Night Arrives” has the ability to affect and move many listeners all around the world.
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